Origins
Galli family oral tradition has it that the “Galli” came from Italy. At the beginning of the 19th century, when today’s Italy was still divided into four kingdoms, Fernando Galli is said to have been recruited from the Kingdom of Italy for Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign. This Fernando was one of the few who made it back alive across the Berezina during the retreat and then settled in Germany, at Königsberg in eastern Brandenburg (Chojna, Poland since 1945.)